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Literary Quest

Literary Quest

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A podcast dedicated to fantasy fiction! Each week Marysa and Vicki will discuss a different book from the fantasy genre. A great podcast if you love talking about fantasy and are looking for recommendations.
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Done & Dunne

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A podcast exploring writer Dominick Dunne's quest for justice amidst his incisive commentary of the high society set. Alicia (Trashy Divorces) leads a far ranging romp through the novels and Vanity Fair columns of one of the 20th century’s most unforgettable literary contributors. Covering courthouses and country clubs, Dunne’s voice was one for the ages, and Done & Dunne ensures that voice can continue to resonate with audiences today.
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Fans of On Being and Los Culturistas love this 2024 GLAAD Media Award nominee for Outstanding Podcast. Featuring Carmen Maria Machado, Alison Bechdel, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Greg Louganis, Becky Albertalli, and so many more, guests from across the rainbow tell these authors how their books helped them overcome alienation, gender dysphoria, familial homophobia, and being outed. Essayist and Lambda Literary Fellow J.P. Der Boghossian hosts the conversations with a gentle and energetic style, ...
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Quest To Elevate Literary Knowledge Everywhere

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QELKE is a podcast dedicated to elevating its listener’s knowledge by reviewing some of the greatest literary writers and their works. Join QELKE bi-monthly as host, Bob Stewart discusses classics and sometimes not-so classic literary contributions that have become national treasures.
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Join brother and sister T. S. Russell and Elizabeth Bernadette as we embark on a quest after the great works of literature! Like the mythic leviathan, these are stories so monstrous in scope and depth that to merely touch them is to be changed forever. Our topics range from short stories by Flannery O’Connor to plays by Shakespeare to romance novels by Jane Austen. Cover Art: Moby Dick by Culpeo-Fox. Used with permission. Theme Music: "Job Suite" by Michael Card. Used with permission.
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Elevate your reading experience with our thoughtfully curated selection of literary treasures. Unleash the power of a good book. 📖🌟 #BookEnthusiast #Books #eBooks #Audiobooks #PDF #Kindle #Mobi #ePub Powered by Firstory Hosting
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Join us on this quest to discover the eucatastrophe hidden in the worlds around us as we explore life, imagination and everything. Narnia is just one of the many worlds visited by Lewis' literary children. Who knows where we'll end up when we jump "Into the Wardrobe"?
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Congrats, you are one chat away from treasure! 🤩 We're Gwen and Mimi, two avid readers. After a few months discussing books and suggesting reads to each other, we realised that the books we both loved were written in the 20th century. This is how we created the only conversational podcast focusing on books of the 20th century, famous or awaiting world-wide recognition. Because not all the great books are official classics, and because we take a personal approach to reading. We believe that e ...
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Pleasant Evenings Book Club

Pleasant Evenings Book Club

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Welcome to Pleasant Evenings Book Club, a podcast focused on literary criticism and analysis. Our main focus is literature but we also have been known to dabble in movies, television, and frankly whatever we see fit. We’re here to have fun with some heavy texts, and more than anything else, make more evenings pleasant. Currently on a quest to watch all of Mobile Suit Gundam, but we’re still a book club!
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Hi, I'm Zoe! I'm a Visual Linguist and Exophonic Writer based in Melbourne, Australia. Join me each episode while I podcast my quest to become a published author. Some topics that will show up in the podcast are: -Languages and Linguistics (especially about Spanish and English). -The struggles of writing in your second language. -Literature (genres and styles that have grabbed my attention) -Writing techniques, rituals and routines. -Seeking publication. -Curation of resources: books, blogs, ...
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"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." - Victor Hugo Music influences culture, inspires companionship, and creates tension. To love music is to eternally welcome it into your heart like a significant other. Often compelling, occasionally frustrating, yet forever entwined with your heart. The Keep Calm and Rock On Podcast has launched to provide a roundtable-type platform to discuss the way rock and roll and popular music has moved people for t ...
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Armed with scholarly analysis, "Pulling The Thread Podcast" fearlessly dissects the New Testament, unveiling its human origins and challenging the myth of inspiration. Through textual criticism, it exposes the NT as products of later centuries, far removing its from the era of Jesus. Driven by a quest for Jewish reclamation, employing the historical-critical method, the podcast explores Second Temple Judaism, the Talmud & the Qumran community. Renowned scholars guide the journey, revealing J ...
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Among the many ideas explored in this book are beauty, gardens, honor and reputation, cunning, nobility, friendship and many others. Authored by the man who is credited with having invented the essay form in English, The Essays of Francis Bacon was written over an extended period, ranging from the mid sixteenth century. They were compiled in a single edition in 1597 and later re-written, enlarged and added to in other editions in 1612 and 1625. However, their compelling and insightful qualit ...
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We wrap up Monster Mash October with the Morning Wood Tree by Siggy Shade. Millie's dreams of a future filled with love come crashing down on her wedding day when she discovers her fiance in a compromising position with his mother. Discovering this family secret endangers Millie's life. She never would have guessed that her savior would be an ancie…
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This book gave me an understanding of the queer community that I hadn’t found anywhere else. Today we meet David Reddish and we’re talking about the queer book that saved his life: Angels in America by Tony Kushner. Self proclaimed uber-geek David Reddish is the award-winning author of Sex, Drugs & Superheroes trilogy. The third novel in the series…
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This week, we jump tracks ever so slightly to focus on another infamous crime in Beverly Hills. The Menendez boys are learning by watching the early 1980’s poster boy of crime, Joe Hunt, and his BBC. The Billionaire Boys Club, a nickname that became its moniker, might have started out with all the best intentions, but soon turns into a crime spree …
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A new episode of This Queer Book Saved My Life drops next week on October 29! In our off weeks, we air the most recent episode of The Gaily Show which J.P. hosts for AM950 Radio. On today's episode: Rae Leiner from the National LGBTQ Task Force and Matt Caffrey from Swing Left. Let’s. Get. Out. The. Vote! Phone bank with the National LGBTQ Taskforc…
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This week, we continue our investigation into Dominick Dunne’s real-time reporting from the summer of 1993 from the first murder trial of Lyle and Erik Menendez. Testimony is given by many characters at this time, including the friends and family of the accused, as well as Dr. Oziel and the fishing charter Captain too. Also included are some epic s…
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In this bonus episode this week, Dominick Dunne is coming in hot with all the other Hollywood news happening during the summer of 1993 throughout the first Menendez trial. Players in this first half of this episode include the initial arrest of Heidi Fleiss, the death of Joyce Haber, and the resurgence of the Château Marmont. In the second half, we…
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Who am I going to be and what is my life going to look like? Today we meet Samantha Mann and we’re talking about the queer book that saved her life: The Hours by Michael Cunningham. Samantha writes essays & articles exploring culture, mental health, motherhood, & LGBTQ issues. Her work has been featured in The Cut, Vogue, Elle, TODAY, Romper, and m…
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We're continuing Monster Mash with Shots and Barbs by Lily Mayne. This is the second installment of the Deep Earth Dating series. Nuni Var Rorik is having a celebration for his architecture firm and needs an event planner. Anita Chaudhary is a one of the best event planners and is assigned to work with Nuni to organize his event. Anita and Nuni are…
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This week, we continue Dominick Dunne’s reporting into the Menendez case, with his coverage from the first trial of Lyle and Erik Menendez, from the summer of 1993. Dunne casts a dramatic lens on the players involved, and exactly how much the story has shifted from the August 1989 double murder of their parents, Kitty and Jose Menendez. In this epi…
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This week, we continue our investigation into the murders of Kitty and Jose Menendez, from “Nightmare on Elm Drive”, Dominick Dunne’s original coverage from October 1990, setting the baseline of the facts of the case, right from the early days. The week, we learn how the shady therapist, his secret mistress and the best friend – not even working to…
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Am I the only one who feels this crazy about what's happening to me right now? Today we meet Mia Arias Tsang and we’re talking about the book that saved her life: Women by Chloé Caldwell. And Chloé joins us for the conversation! Mia is a writer, freelance editor, and former biologist based in Queens, NYC. She has conducted extensive research in evo…
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Happy Monster Mash October! We're kicking off our month of monster romances with Moth by Lily Mayne. Charlie had planned to return to the military, but a pit stop at the raider camp in Nebraska derails his plans. He ends up on a long journey with a prickly companion, Moth, who is half human/half monster, deadly with a sword, and lacking in conversa…
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This week, we open a whole new investigation into the murders of Jose and Kitty Menendez, at the hands on their sons, Lyle and Erik. The grisly crime committed in Beverly Hills on August 20, 1989, was extensively covered by Dominick Dunne, over the course of a number of years. In this episode, we begin at the very start, by exploring Dunne’s initia…
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We are still all aboard this journey with Dominick Dunne to the 60th birthday party of 3rd Lord Glenconner, Colin Tennant, with all the family. In this second part, we meet up with Princess Margaret, Raquel Welch, and a few other folks with some strong opinions when the American boat sallies up next to the Wind Star. Once the journey is over, there…
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Is it possible that my family, my mother, could ever accept me? Today we meet Eric Marcus and we’re talking about the book that saved his life: Consenting Adult by Laura Z. Hobson. Eric Marcus is the author of a dozen books, including two editions of Making Gay History (the original 1992 edition is entitled Making History), Why Suicide?, and Breaki…
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We are taking a voyage this week with Dominick Dunne, who is attending the 60th birthday party bash of Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner at the end of 1986. Colin had a great party the decade before and Princess Margaret is no stranger to the party time hedonistic time happening on the island. Dunne attends this celebration, but this is not Nick’…
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When Queen Elizabeth II was born in 1926, there were years of her childhood that were, compared to other future monarchs, quite normal. After all, she was never supposed to be the Queen. Her father was a second son; her Uncle David would succeed her grandfather, and certainly other male children would come along. And then, in 1930, Elizabeth's pare…
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A new episode of This Queer Book Saved My Life drops next week on September 17! In our off weeks, we air the most recent episode of The Gaily Show which J.P. hosts for AM950 Radio. Today, the director of the new documentary Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln is here. Also joining me are two historical experts from the film. It debu…
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Across the humanities and social sciences, scholars increasingly use quantitative methods to study textual data. Considered together, this research represents an extraordinary event in the long history of textuality. More or less all at once, the corpus has emerged as a major genre of cultural and scientific knowledge. In Literary Mathematics: Quan…
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In this episode, we take Dominick Dunne through many decades of his turbulent career, and get our man Nick redeemed in the Hollywood scene in the mid-1990s. Dunne knew the Bloomingdales and the Reagans socially back in his Hollywood halcyon days in the 1960s, but was most certainly booted out of their circle by his 1970s downfall. With the publicat…
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Today I talked to Al Posamentier about his books (co-authored with Christian Speitzer) The Mathematics of Everyday Life (Prometheus Books, 2018). We all are told – practically from the moment we enter school – that mathematics is important because it permeates practically all aspects of our lives. But, for the most part, we don’t really notice it e…
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Exile is not a choice that anyone wants to make. It’s something we come to through necessity. Today we meet seeley quest and we’re talking about the book that saved hir life: Exile and Pride by Eli Clare. And Eli joins us for the conversation! Seeley Quest (sie/hir) is a trans disabled environmentalist, working in literary and body-based compositio…
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In this episode we discuss Quicksilver by Callie Hart. Saeris has spent her life living in the third ward and fighting for survival. When a theft goes wrong and she gets caught she finds herself sucked into a new world, full of the fae and new types of danger. Especially, since she is the first alchemist who can manipulate quicksilver in a long tim…
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Our universe might appear chaotic, but deep down it's simply a myriad of rules working independently to create patterns of action, force, and consequence. In Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe (MIT Press, 2021), Brian Clegg explores the phenomena that make up the very fabric of our world by examining ten essential sequenced systems. From diagra…
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In this week’s episode, we take a journey to the second criminal case Dominick Dunne covered in his reporting for Vanity Fair. When Vicki Morgan was murdered in July 1983, it sent shockwaves through the political upper crust, as Vicki was the mistress of Alfred Bloomingdale, connected into the Reagan administration through the decades. Dominick Dun…
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We are excited to share a show we're loving with you! American Prankster: Wavy Gravy's Life Story pairs the legendary entertainer and activist with our friend, podcaster Rainbow Valentine, following the incredible ride of a life that Wavy Gravy has been on through decades of American counterculture. Enjoy this sample, and subscribe wherever you lis…
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August 26 marks the 15 years since our man Nick’s passing in 2009, and this week, we honor him, his life and legacy. Dominick Dunne was fondly recalled by many – these are a few of the best stories about his life and impact, by Sean Elder and Jason Chaffee. Do you have a story to share about Dominick Dunne? Tell Alicia at doneanddunne@gmail.com. Al…
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It's a double-up week here on Done and Dunne! In this first drop, we travel to the California home of Joanne Carson where Truman Capote spent his last days in August of 1984, forty years ago. Truman, infamous writer and collector of Swans, has some pretty epic stories in his last months, as told by his friends before his passing on August 25. Then,…
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This book isn’t about celebrity. It’s about queer heritage. And passing it on. Today we meet Brent Love and we’re talking about the book that saved his life: Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile. Brent Love is the author of the memoir Leap which debuted in June 2024. He is also the host/producer of the podcasts Hope Works: A Surrogacy and You and Me and…
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This week, we discuss two books from the Chronicles of Narnia series. In the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the Pevensie children go through a wardrobe and discover a magical world called Narnia that is coated in snow. They are tasked with rescuing a kind faun from the self-proclaimed queen of Narnia, Jadis, who has cursed Narnia to be always wi…
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It is off to Old Hollywood this week, with the life and death of Roddy McDowall. Dominick Dunne was involved in both, and does he give a wonderful profile of his friend at this time of his passing in 1998. Roddy – legendary in Hollywood, not only for his prolific acting career, but also his photographs and very famous friendships. Roddy was the bes…
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This week, we are taking a little detour into the past in our investigation with a Not Dunne Yet bonus episode from many moons ago. Dominick Dunne really did interact with so many characters in his various acts, and this week we take our man Nick connecting a whole throughline of folks you might not know were connected. From Elaine Young to Gig You…
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The ending to Sabres of Paradise offers a sober counterpart to the high passions of the previous two parts. The story of a rebellion that even in defeat refuses to be forgotten shifts into the story of a man who, in captivity, refuses to sacrifice his dignity and faces his new life and coming death with grace few can imitate. We count down all the …
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No queer person is an island. Even if we start off that way. Today we meet Robin Jeffrey and we’re talking about the book that saved her life: Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delaney. Robin Jeffrey is the author of the series of classic murder mysteries with scifi-twists, The Cadence Turing Mysteries and the paranormal romance s…
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This episode we're talking about mermen! Whispers of the Deep by Emma Hamm is the first in her new series about merpeople and their humans. Ever since humans developed colonies in the oceans, the undine (merpeople), have been their enemies. Humans destroyed parts of the ocean to create new homes, angering the creatures already in the sea. Argus is …
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Join us as we explore Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. In this episode, we delve into Santiago's epic battle— with the sea, but also with his community and most of all with himself. Discover the powerful themes of perseverance, pride, and the human spirit that drive this classic story; not to mention, the beautiful descriptions of the se…
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Dominick Dunne did write about the murders of his friends Jay Sebring and Sharon Tate on that terrible weekend in August 1969. This is a weekend that would change everything in Hollywood, and our man Nick was on the scene, and has the story from all his friends, so connected into our ongoing investigation. Included: Robert Evans, Roman Polanski, Wa…
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Today, Once Upon a Crime Books presents 7 Minutes in Book Heaven, the podcast where we interview LGBTQ authors about the new books they have coming out for us to love and cuddle up with. Visit them online: onceuponacrimebooks.com Once Upon a Crime Books is an independent bookstore specializing in mystery fiction. Located in Uptown Minneapolis, you …
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Alicia is back from NYC with the stars of Broadway in her eyes. It seemed the perfect week to investigate Dominick Dunne's squad of best friends that include Howard Erskine, Charles Hollerith Jr., and Stephen Sondheim! These chums go all the way back to the late 1940s in their Williams College days, and what a life well led for each individual. But…
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You love your parents because they’re your parents. But would you if they weren’t? This and other queer stories from the Middle East to Canada. Today we meet Mike Z. and we’re talking about the book that saved his life: The Clothesline Swing by Danny Ramadan. And Danny joins us for the conversation! Mike Z. lives in Lebanon and works in art therapy…
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This week we're discussing The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett. Twoflower, a tourist, takes a break from his job as an insurance adjuster to explore Ankh-Morpork, a destination that he has read and heard so much about. He wants to see the famed heroes, dragons, bar fights, and have an adventure! However, Twoflower has no idea of the danger that h…
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A new episode of This Queer Book Saved My Life drops next week on July 23rd! In our off weeks, we air the most recent episode of The Gaily Show which J.P. hosts for AM950 Radio. Today, Jennie Garner and Andrew Frisbie join us from North Liberty Library to talk about book bans, how to support public libraries, and libraries as spaces for belonging a…
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In this episode of Done and Dunne, we take our man Nick to London in 2002 to report in on the trial of Paul Burrell, the royal butler who knows all Diana’s secrets. The Diana in question is, of course, Princess of Wales. Dunne reports in on this trial of the most loyal servant ever, which is halted after 11 days, right before Paul’s appearance on t…
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When the adults in your life are this reckless and dangerous, what do you do? Today we meet Rex Ogle and we’re talking about the book that saved his life: Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs. Rex Ogle is an award-winning author and the writer of nearly a hundred children’s books, comics, graphic novels, and memoirs—most notably Free Lunch, …
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Join us for the final book in Scarlett St. Clair's Hades and Persephone retelling - A Touch of Chaos. Hades has been captured and put in the labyrinth by Theseus, Persephone has recently killed her mother, and Theseus has let out a few Titans. Theseus remains committed to his goal of destroying all the gods and has the support of mortals and demi-g…
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There is no shortage of books on the growing impact of data collection and analysis on our societies, our cultures, and our everyday lives. David Hand's new book Dark Data: Why What You Don't Know Matters (Princeton University Press, 2020) is unique in this genre for its focus on those data that aren't collected or don't get analyzed. More than an …
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Join us for the finale episode of our Lost Generation series as we dive into F. Scott Fitzgerald's poignant masterpiece, Tender is the Night. Discover the opulent yet tragic world of Dick and Nicole Diver as we discuss the themes of love, ambition, and disillusionment that mirror Fitzgerald's own tumultuous life. Tune in to discover why this novel …
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Investigators, this week we continue our journey into dip into Dominick Dunne’s reporting in personal profiles as he begins his third act. In June 1989, Phyllis McGuire was the subject of Nick’s gaze, in a story that takes us from the famous trio of singing sisters to Sam Giancana to Dorothy Kilgallen to Frank Sinatra, with jewels, personal Eiffel …
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It won't be the last we see of it, but this is as far as the Universal Century goes. In some ways compromised but never boring or lacking ambition, Victory Gundam is a true Tomino original and one of our favorite things that we've covered so far. For this discussion we discuss the motivations of colonization's middle-managers, inter-generational co…
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Send us a text Hello, Exophonics! In this episode I'll share with you a map of the milestones of my (still very young) trajectory in this writerly life. My aim is to inspire you to do the same with your own journey and, like that, beat IMPOSTER SYNDROME, once and for all!...Or at least try. 😉 Let's gooo!✨ Show notes: My Paris blog (in Spanish): htt…
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